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The Helsinki Swimming Stadium, originally earmarked for the 1940 Olympic Games, is a winning attraction in the Finnish capital. An oasis among lush lawns where residents come for relaxation and training – after the compulsory jump, that is.

For Monocle’s first ever Restaurant Awards our editorial team has whipped up a list of our 50 favourite restaurants. These are the places we would go back to for the food, hospitality, great chefs, old-school staff, lively manner and perfect dining rooms. Monocle films invites you to join us for breakfast in Toronto, lunch in Forte dei Marmi and dinner in Stockholm.

What’s it like being a second city? On duty for The Escapist, Robert Bound found Chiang Mai to be an ancient town with a contemporary buzz of bars, bands and boxers, wonderful food and beautiful girls on scooters. It doesn’t feel like it’s in a race with Bangkok, or anywhere else for that matter.

Welcome to our new summer magazine: The Escapist. As the name suggests, the publication has a travel edge but also explores, explains and reveals 10 cities around the world in more depth than any travel magazine. You can also find fresh fashion, observations and journey-themed essays, alongside our considered round-up of the world's top 50 restaurants. Available now at [The Monocle Shop.](/shop/magazine/other/the-escapist-2015/)

The perfect hot drink is not always an espresso or a flat white: more and more specialty stores around the world are opening their doors to tea aficionados in search of the perfect brew. Monocle Films visits three emporiums in Berlin, New York and London dedicated to the heritage, ritual and taste of tea.

Monocle films visits Porto to discover how one city leader is determined to stop gentrification destroying his city.

To celebrate Monocle’s 2015 Quality of Life Survey, editor in chief Tyler Brûlé and AkzoNobel hosted a midsummer party at our London headquarters. The event provided an opportunity to honour this year’s winners and celebrate the best cities to call home.

As an unprecedented heat wave beats down on France, fashion exhibitors are back in Paris’s tradeshows and showrooms to present their 2016 spring-summer menswear creations. Here are some highlights.

Cities are often seen as the flipside of nature: synthetic, sleek and sometimes impersonal. For places that pine after being greener, the Solitair tree nursery provides a blueprint. Monocle travelled to the nursery in Belgium to discover the value of investing in the future.

As the mercury rose in Milan, we toured the showrooms and palazzos to take the temperature of the best 2016 spring/summer menswear collections. Here are 10 of our favourite finds.